cloy

[Cloy]

Supply or feed to surfeit

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To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

Verb
cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"

Verb
supply or feed to surfeit

v. t.
To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

v. t.
To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.

v. t.
To penetrate or pierce; to wound.

v. t.
To spike, as a cannon.

v. t.
To stroke with a claw.

Cloy

Cloy , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove.] 1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]

The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones.

2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.

[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?

He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying.

3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.

Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed.

He never shod horse but he cloyed him.

4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] Johnson. 5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] Shak.

To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

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